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Nov. 21, 1933. J. AMlCO 1,936,418"

AA T MOUNTING Filed March 3, 1952 INVENTOR. (/dSEP/f 9/7/60 ATTORNEY.

Patented Nov. 21, 1933 warren STATES PATENT @FFECE 1,936,418 LAST MOUNTING Joseph Amos, Detroit,1Mich. Application March a, 1932. Serial No. 596,551" 4 Claims. (o1. 12-123) My invention relates to a new and useful improvement in a shoe support. The invention is particularly adapted for use on a shoe support which is used in connection with a mechanism wh reby a sole is glued to a shoe and pressed thereto until the glue has sufficiently dried to adhere to the shoe.

It is an object of the present invention to provide a shoe support of this class which will serve to engage the shoe adjacent the heel thereof, and support the same, and which will also effect a stretching of the shoe on the last which engages the forward portion of the shoe so as to maintain the shoe in proper position tightly stretched While the sole is being placed thereon.

It is another object of the invention to provide a shoe support particularly adapted for engaging a heel, and so arranged and constructed that when moved into shoe engaging position a securing of the same in this position will effect a rocking thereof to tightly draw the forward portion of the shoe onto the last.

Another object of the invention is the provision in a shoe support of a mounting for a heel engaging portion so constructed and arranged that when the heel engaging portion is brought into proper position for engaging the heel, an

automatic locking of this portion in position will be effected.

Other objects will appear hereinafter.

The invention consists in the combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter described and claimed.

The invention will be best Lmderstood by a reference to the accompanying drawing which forms a part of this specification and in which,

1 is a side elevational view of the invention with parts broken away and parts shown in section.

Fig. 2 is a sectional view taken on line 2-2 of Fig. 1.

In the drawing I have illustrated the invention used with a presser '7, supported on a suitable shaft 8, slidable in a standard 9. A stationary supporting member 10, which projects upwardly from a suitable bed or other support, is provided with a last 11, over which the forward part of the shoe 12 is positioned. An opening 13 is formed through the supporting member 10, and

, slidable therein is a supporting arm 14, having an opening 15 formed adjacent its end, and provided at one side with the curved side wall 16.

A spring 1'7 is connected at one end to the support and at the opposite end to the arm 14,

i so as to resist longitudinal movement of the arm in one direction. Slidably projectedthrough the opening is a bar 18 having a head 19, which is adapted to engage the inner surface of the shoe at the heel portion thereof. A set screw 20 is threaded through the end of the arm 14, and 0 adapted to engage the bar 18, for locking the same in its various vertical positions to which it may be adjusted. In use when the shoe 12 is placed upon the last 11, the arm 14 is moved horizontally to a proper position so that the head 19 may be thrust upwardly into the shoe to engage the heel. When in this position of engagement the spring 17 will serve, on account of the outward pressure on the arm 1 1, to maintain the head 19 in close engagement with the rear of the heel portion of the shoe. The set screw 20 is then tightened to lock the bar 18 in its proper position of vertical adjustment, and upon a threading of the screw 20 into locking position, the bar 13 will be rocked as indicated in dotted lines in Fig. 1.

This rocking movement is effected through the engagement of the side face of the bar 18 with the curved surface 16. Thedegree of movement indicated by the dotted line position in Fig. l, is

slightly exaggerated, as the movement is very so slight. The movement, however, is sufficient to draw the shoe 12 rearwardly onto the last and stretch the forward portion thereof, so that a snug fitting of the shoe on the last is eifected. At the same time, because of the engagement of 35 the head 19 with the shoe, the arm 14 is rocked into the dotted line position shown in Fig. l, and locked against slidable movement in the opening 13. This arrangement is one which assures of a proper fitting of the shoe on the last and affords a rigid support which may be easily and quickly adjusted to shoes of various sizes, thus facilitating the operation of shoe repairing in a device of this kind.

While I have illustrated and described the preferred form of my invention I do not wish to limit myself to the precise details of structure shown, but desire to avail myself of such variations and modifications as may come within the scope of the appended claims.

. Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is: 1. In a shoe support of the class described, a supporting arm having an opening formed therein adjacent one end, one side of said opening being curved; an engagement bar slidable through said opening; and means engaging said engagement bar for locking the same against slidable 119 movement in said opening, and effecting a tilting of said bar upon locking of the same.

2. A shoe support of the class described, comprising: a supporting arm having an opening formed therein, one side of said opening being curved; an engagement bar slidable through said opening and engageable on one of its faces with the curved side of said opening; and means for forcing said supporting bar into engagement with said curved side and locking the same against slidable movement in said opening and effecting a tilting of said engagement bar relatively to said arm.

3. In a shoe support of the class described, a support having an opening formed therein; a supporting arm slidably projected through said opening and slightly tiltable therein; an engagement bar slidably projected through an opening formed in said arm; and means engageable with said engagement bar for locking the same against slidable movement in said opening, and effecting the tilting of the same relatively to said arm.

4. In a shoe support of the class described, a support having an opening formed therein; a supporting arm slidably projected through said openingand slightly tiltable therein, and having an opening formed adjacent one of its ends, said opening having one of its faces curved; an engagement bar slidably projected through said opening and engageable on one of its faces with the curved face of said opening; and means cooperating with said curved face for resisting slidablemovement of said bar in said opening, and for effecting a tilting of said bar relatively to said arm.

' JOSEPH AMIGO. 

